Posted on 11/21/2012 6:50:00 AM PST by Cronos
Her dog had got in a fight with another dog in a walkway near her Hampstead home in north London.
The owner of the other dog Wayne Stearman, 41, left the scene and returned with two 10-inch knives before stabbing the bulldog.
One of the blows was so forceful that the knife bent in half in what one witness described as a ‘blood bath’.
Today, Mr Stearman said he knifed the dog because he was only trying to stop it killing his own terrier Monty.
Mr Stearman said: 'The dog’s a lunatic. I’d just stepped out my house and the dog went for him. It wasn’t on a lead. It locked its jaw on to Monty’s head. He’s only little and he’s a donut around other dogs.
'It was like a lion on top of a gazelle. I was screaming for help and the owner was nowhere to be seen.
When she did finally turn up five minutes later all she did was stroke her dog. I was kicking and punching it but it wouldn't budge so I went into the kitchen and got three knives. I'm not proud of what I've done but what was I supposed to do, stand there and let it kill my dog?
it tried to attack his dog three months earlier. 'I literally had to pick Monty up and throw him over the fence because this dog was going to go for him. He's attacked loads of dogs on this estate and he's even gone for a kid outside the Budgens up the road. I’m just glad it happened to me because it was only a matter of time before it killed a kid.
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it looks like this lady did not do anything in that respect
you have a well-trained dog! People don’t train their small breeds and tolerate stuff that wouldn’t be tolerated in big breeds — well, in one way it’s understandable — a nippy small breed can’t do as much damage as a nippy big breed.
Ah England, yep no guns there.
The thing about killing a dog with your bare hands is...they are so fast, in a fight they can move and bite faster than you can see them. You will not know that you’ve been bitten until a couple seconds after it happens.
Their teeth cut flesh better than razors, and they are hot. I learned this the hard way.
What I further learned when I captured two loose pit bulls in my neighborhood is that those particular dogs, despite being small, are so ridiculously strong that I was just plain frightened. Even though I did capture them both and leash them into my yard, I was an idiot for doing so.
After I leasehed them, the male, which was a little bowling ball of a dog, bumped my right leg from behind which took me clean off my feet in an instant. Had those dogs attacked me then, that would have been all she wrote. Luckily, I had befriended the pregnant female prior to that, so neither dog took advantage of my fall.
I then turned them in to animal control where the owner later retreived them both.
My point though in relaying this to you is do not mistakenly underestimate a dog as an easy opponent in a fight, they are physically superior to humans, especially if they become vicious, and a pitbull is like wound steel with razors in its mouth.
What I thought. Stabbing less effective, have to repeat and get accused
I do think he was overkill though, a couple times maybe enough, 23, gosh, the poor animalConsidering the knives in my kitchen, slicing seems a more logical way to use them.
That said, I'd probably grab an axe instead. But I'd set it to "stun" - wouldn't want to be accused of overkill.
I completely agree with you, but I would have killed that dog chasing my kid, with my bare hands and that dog saw that transmitted from me when he saw he coming after him. That was completely instinctual on my part - I was killing that dog. I would have kicked him to hell to start with. Mothers will kill first and not even ask questions after. I weighted about 110 lbs. on a good day then. I'm not big now, about 124, but no dog is getting my little Yorkie who loves everybody.
I have a defensive bat behind my front door and that will crush a skull for sure. I can get to that fast, but if the dog already has my little dog in it's mouth, that dog is dead one way or another right now.
My dog is not allowed out front where there are cars, etc., she is only allowed in my small back garden and nothing can get to her there.
She is a great guard dog in that she runs to me and barks if she sees motion outside, but, since she loves everyone, if someone broke in the house and I was asleep, she would kiss him and only bark when he left because she would want him to stay.
I've read on some dog pots here that little dogs tend to be yappy and biting. My Yorkie has never done that - she is calm and quiet unless we are playing. She only barks if she sees something move outside and comes to my chair to tell me. Then, the barking is over.
I can't say I trained her this way - she just is this way. I wonder if it's because I am calm and we live in this house by ourselves. I got her when she was 5 weeks old so I am the only master she has ever known.
One night she thought there was something outside in the back garden and I heard an aggressive bark come from her which was entirely different than anything I had heard from her before. That bark meant “get the hell out of here or I'll come get you”. I told her, “It's okay”, and she gave up that bark.
Can’t add much more to what you said.
Stupid git.
We've all seen the horror show Chihuahuas and such that sit on their owners’ lap and try to bite anyone who comes near.
In a larger dog, this would be wholly unacceptable but because the dog is so ‘small and cute’, often, excuses are made, instead.
Statistically speaking, small dogs account for many more [usually unreported] bites than big dogs.
As with all dogs, the blame lies squarely with the owner.
I applaud anyone who understands that their 'small cute dog' is ~still~ a *dog* with lots of sharp teeth.
If the papers reported every kid who'd been 'snapped' by some little lap dog, we'd never have an end to these threads.
Re-posting from another thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2956888/posts?page=10#10
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Ah! Fun with firearms and animals.
Guess what happened to my family and I on Monday?
Well, we got a dog Saturday. 3 year old black lab female. My Wife decided to take her for a walk with my young Sons down the block. I stayed home because I was cooking. When I looked out of my front window, I saw a friggin’ HUGH white dog running loose in my yard. Knowing how dogs are when one is unleashed, and never before seeing this dog, I called my Wife to warn her and ask how far from our house they all were.
They were two houses away.
I quickly grabbed my Springfield XDm .45 and headed out the door with it behind my back just in time to try yelling the dog away and for my family to quickly get indoors. The dog started nipping at our dog and tried jumping on my nine year old Son -scaring him to tears. The, “Owner,” ran over while still talking on her cellphone and grabbed this beast and led it away.
My Wife and I spent 30 minutes trying to calm both of our Sons down. They were scared sh!tless. My nine year old was in tears.
Fast forward three hours. Time to take our dog for potty.
I have my .45 behind my back, my Fenix 900 lumen flashlight, and my cell.
My Wife has our dog on her leash. They’re doing their thing, I’m keeping alert.
BOOM! Out of nowhere comes dogzilla!
It’s halfway across the street running at full speed.
My Wife whimpers and hides behind me.
Our dog is frozen.
I pull out my light and gun, blast the beast in the face with full daylight and scream, “STOP!!!”
It instantly stops three feet from my driveway and bolts home.
Then, I hear some guy calling out from the house across the street where that mutt was heading, “Sorry. We’re getting rid of him tomorrow.”
Gun and light in hand, I yell, “That’s TWICE!!”
I then called the local sheriff and tell them the whole story (just in case there’s any calls about some long-haired dude screaming in his driveway pointing a flashlight and pistol at an unseen beast), and tell them that it happened, and that there’s no need for an officer to come by.
Haven’t seen that dog since.
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I would NEVER want to shoot a dog. I LOVE animals.
If I had done that, it would have broken my heart.
But if it would have happened, it wouldn’t have been my fault.
That dog’s MORON owner letting it loose without a leash to roam free in the neighborhood would have been to blame.
“We’ve all seen the horror show Chihuahuas and such that sit on their owners’ lap and try to bite anyone who comes near.”
Oh, yes, I remember seeing little dogs like that on what’s his name TV show. Every time I thought the owner was crazy to allow that to happen. If Prissy, my Yorkie, did that, she would be in a heap of trouble. She is on my chair right now, curled up with closed eyes, but she has never demonstrated agression toward anyone who comes in the house. She is delighted when people come and she wants to play with them but has never nipped anyone. I simply would not allow such behavior.
Some overly protective dogs are exactly the reverse.
I’m not even sure I would trust that bat.
Based on some of the vicious dogs that I have seen in action, I would not be surprised at all if I, being 6’4” and 250 lbs, took an aluminum bat an swung down on an attacking dog making direct contact with the skull and it not even phasing the dog.
I say this because I have heard of attacking pits being shot multiple times and not even noticing it.
When I walk my dog, I carry a 26” collapsable baton with a steel tip, but it isn’t for dogs, that is for people.
For dogs I carry large can of bear spray. But even then, it takes about 3 seconds once the spray lands on mucous membraes for the pain to set in, and that three seconds is enough time for a dog to bite the femoral artery along the inner thigh once, which will result in death.
A friendly dog is an angel, but be careful, ma’am honestly, and angry dog is a killing machine.
“aluminum bat”
You don’t understand - this is a made to be “defensive” bat. An aluminum bat is a regular bat, nothing like a defensive bat. One hit with the bat crushes a skull or breaks a leg or arm. Look up “Cold Steel Brooklyn Smasher”, Amazon. When you pick it up, you can feel it is lethal. You don’t play ball with this bat.
Ah, very nice, now that I can understand.
I do, however, remember seeing a story on animal planet I believe it was, about a post lady or perhaps a meter reader lady of some sort walking through an apartment complex doing her job at which point a pitbull launched itself from a second floor balcony to attack her.
The impact of the falling dog dazed her, and while she was down, the dog procceded to eat her face off in a ferocious attack. A neighbor heard this, phoned police, and when the policeman arrived, his first response was to attack the dog with his impact weapon not wanting to shoot as the dog remained close to the woman.
He stated that the dog ignored multiple blows with the baton and continued to maim the woman. He then shot it once in the body which did not kill it, but caused it to leave the victim.
Still though, nice bat ^^
It is not a “pitbull like breed.” Pitbulls are terriers, bulldogs are not.
Your logic seems to be - aggressive dog = pit bull like, or there is a “bull” in its name.
Bulldogs are NOT terriers
Might want to check your source on that
“American bulldogs should *not* be similar in size to a Great Dane.”
Oh come on, Alt, you know how every “bad” breed somehow mutates into gigantic.
At least, every person who’s had 1 but otherwise knows little of dogs has had a 150 lb German Shepherd, 180 lb Pit Bull, and 160 lb Boxer.
I worked with an old man (loved the guy) who always claimed his Collie was 110 lbs. I’m thinking “yeah, right”. Or overstuffed.
After all, my MIL’s brother DID have a 100 lb English Springer - twice the weight he should be. They had a pantry full of only dog treats and were constantly feeding this greedy dog who was clearly roundly fat. He was mistaken by someone in a park for a St. Bernard he was so fat, which made Tucker’s owner mad.
UKC registers them. AKC does not recognize them.
They are in the Guardian Group.
http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/WebPages/Library/BreedStandards
Pitbulls are in the Terrier Group.
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